Civil Rights Vs Gay Rights
"Even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I have a dream.
It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed we hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal'."
-Martin Luther King Jr.
The Civil Rights movement may have started out on a mission to improve the lives of the large population of African-Americans, but who would have guessed that King's quest for racial integration would provoke the same quest for individual rights by another completely different group of people, this time the Gay and Lesbians of society. The quest for equal rights by people, who had unjustifiably been repressed for hundreds of years, would spur and give rise to another group of citizens. While their backgrounds may be totally different, their purpose remained the same as it remains for all members of American society; "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of......
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